This 2-hour TV movie stars Janet Leigh as a onetime musical star who dreams of a comeback. Leigh's autocratic and much-older...
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1975
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Naturalist Gordon Eastman was the "auteur" of Savage Wild. Eastman not only directed the film, but wrote, photographed,...
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1970
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In this crime adventure, a young woman carrying an important paper finds herself pursued by three crooks who chase her into...
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Director
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1968
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The Risk is a mild melodrama concerning the political aspects of germ warfare. A group of British scientists led by...
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1961
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A dramatization of the Philip Barry play about a rich society divorcee who is looking for a real romance and meets a...
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1958
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Vint Bonner
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1958
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Vint Bonner
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1957
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Newly re-energized in the late 1950s, the venerable Pine-Thomas production company moved from Paramount to United Artists,...
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Maj. Paul Peterson
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1957
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Filmed on location in Copenhagen, Hidden Fear stars John Payne as an American lawman whose Denmark-based sister Natalie...
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Mike Brent
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1957
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This little film noir is freely adapted from James M. Cain's novel Love's Lovely Counterfeit, the story of a gangster...
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Ben Grace
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1956
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MacKenzie
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1956
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Rebel in Town was the third issue from Bel-Air Productions, a firm co-founded by film execs Howard W. Koch and...
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John Willoughby
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1956
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John Payne always felt that he delivered his best screen performance in The Boss. Set in the years following WW1, the story...
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Matt Brady
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1956
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Phil Karlson, well-regarded by film buffs for his tough, no-nonsense crime dramas, directed this adventure story shot...
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Mike Cormack
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1955
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In this western, a man is falsely accused of betraying a wagon train to the Apaches and is punished by his employers, but...
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Kirby Randolph
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1955
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Though running 90 minutes, Road to Denver moves along at a much faster clip than most Republic "A" westerns. John Payne and...
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Bill Mayhew
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1955
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Another winning collaboration between producer Benedict Bogeaus and director Allan Dwan, Tennessee's Partner is the third...
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"Tennessee"
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1954
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Next to Slightly Scarlet, Silver Lode is the best of the many 1950s collaborations between producer Benedict Bogaeus and...
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Dan Ballard
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1954
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Rails into Laramie is one of the more obscure Universal-International western programmers of the 1950s, but this is no...
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Jefferson Harder
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1954
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The Vanquished represented another winner from Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit. John Payne plays Rock Grayson, a Civil War POW...
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Rock Grayson
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1953
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Ernie Driscoll (John Payne) is an ex-fighter who came within seconds of winning the world championship. He's now forced to...
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Ernie Driscoll
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1953
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John Payne stars as legendary pirate Barbarossa -- aka Redbeard -- in Raiders of the Seven Seas. Capturing a Spanish galleon...
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Barbarossa
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1953
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Dick Lindsay
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1952
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Kansas City Confidential, Phil Karlson's low (low) budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery...
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Joe Rolfe
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1952
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Library footage from the 1940 Paramount feature The Forest Rangers is used sparingly but effectively in the 1952 Pine-Thomas...
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Kelly Hansen
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1952
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas unit served up another winner with the Technicolor actioner Crosswinds. Set in New Guinea, the film...
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Steve Singleton
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1951
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Somewhat similar to John Ford's Wagon Master (1950), Passage West deals with a band of religious pioneers, led by a...
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Pete Black
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1951
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The fabled 19th-century clashes between U.S. Marines and the pirates of Tripoli have provided story material for dozens of...
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Lieutenant O'Bannion
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1950
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Todd Crayden
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1950
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Produced in garish Cinecolor, this aspiring "A" Western features John Payne as Clay Fletcher, an Eastern lawyer assigned to...
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Clayton Fletcher
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1949
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Paramount's Pine-Thomas production unit was afforded a larger budget than usual for Captain China. The title character,...
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Capt. China
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1949
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Postwar films were festooned with amnesiac ex-GIs who found themselves mixed up with crime. In The Crooked Way, John Payne...
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Eddie Rice
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1949
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John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow...
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Rick Mason
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1948
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In this drama, an egomaniacal producer freely treads upon those around him without regard to the harm he does. The devoted...
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Eric Busch
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1948
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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Fred Gailey
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1947
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After several years' service with the Marines in World War II, Tyrone Power made his much anticipated return to the screen in...
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Gray Maturin
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1946
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In this adventure, a young woman travels across Europe in search of her brother who was listed as missing in action during WW...
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Jeff
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1946
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Bill
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1946
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The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took...
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Harry Fox
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1945
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Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John...
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Johnny Cornell
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1943
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A musical remake of the 1936 comedy Second Honeymoon and the starring debut of Betty Grable, Springtime in the Rockies tells...
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Dan Christy
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1942
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Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar...
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Bill Smith
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1942
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When the US marines land in Iceland during WW2, camp lothario John Payne wastes no time scoping out the local female...
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Capt. James Murfin
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1942
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One of the first big-studio productions to acknowledge America's entry into WWII, 20th Century-Fox's To the Shores of Tripoli...
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Chris Winters
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1942
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Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian...
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Ted Scott
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1941
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Dan Hopkins
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1941
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On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment...
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Rix Martin
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1941
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In this musical, the cruise that salesgirl Nan Spencer (Alice Faye) worked so hard to pay for is cut tragically short when...
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Jay Williams
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1941
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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Skeets Harrigan
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1940
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Seventeen-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century Fox production Star...
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Bud Borden
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1940
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John Barrymore provides an embarrassing spectacle in the semi-autobiographical role of a ham actor. Constantly in debt and...
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Richard Lansing
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1940
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical)...
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Lee Danfield
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1940
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Warner Bros. Tear Gas Squad manages to pack thrills, comedy, romance and songs into a neat 55-minute package. Dennis Morgan...
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Bill Morrissey
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1940
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A lumber camp provides the setting for this romantic drama that chronicles the love between a nightclub singer, her new...
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Slim
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1940
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In this drama, a remake of The Crowd Roars, two auto racing brothers become rivals on the racetrack when the older brother...
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Eddie Greer
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1939
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A singing waiter with a wonderful operatic voice finds himself in the squared circle facing heavyweight boxers after he gets...
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Steve Nelson
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1939
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Filmed on-location at the Naval Air Training Stations in San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL, this black-and-white Warner Bros....
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Jerry Harrington
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1939
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1938
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Don Vincente
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1938
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Love on Toast was one of several mid-1930s Hollywood films helmed by E. A. DuPont, a once-celebrated German filmmaker then on...
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Bill Adams
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1937
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The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press...
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Jimmy Maxwell
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1937
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Chunky character actor J. Edward Bromberg carries the weight of Fair Warning on his burly shoulders. Bromberg is cast as...
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Jim Preston
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1937
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In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged...
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1936
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This German comedy contains the feature film debut of Sir Lawrence Olivier. He plays a modern artist who has not yet found an...
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1930
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Lily Becker (Hope Hampton) is the musically talented daughter whose mother forces her into a marriage to the son of a wealthy...
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1922
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